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Germany military terms, mainly hardware but also operational words. I'm not interested in glorifying war but I am nonetheless fascinated by how these words sound: the strange, stark beauty of words for killing machines.

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A tragic example (and a cautionary one for the United States) of how the image of a particular culture can be entirely altered. A hundred years ago, if you asked non-German Westerners what the sound of German connoted to them, they would have said music and philosophy.

German words in English are loaded with social meaning, sometimes fair and sometimes not. One wonders whether, had another country arisen as the definitive soldier, the definitive enemy of the 20th century, your blitzkriegs and mörsers would sound more benign.